166 Quotes by Eugene Ionesco

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.

God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.